What are your Ten most treasured/favourite albums, albums that you would suggest to friends to listen to, it will be interesting to see the results and maybe even come across something that you've never heard of before.

here are mine

1. The Grand Wazoo by Frank Zappa
2. Street Survivors by Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. Eat A Peach by Allman Brothers Band
4. Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus by Spirit
5. Kick by INXS
6. Live After Death by Iron Maiden
7. Fly By Night by Rush
8. Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
9. Bryter Later by Nick Drake
10. Forever Changes by Love

In no order at all:

Behind Closed Doors - Secret Affair
Too Much Pressure - The Selecter
Guilty Until Proven innocent - The Specials
Rude Awakening - Sonic Boom Six
Setting Sons - The Jam
Jim Jones Review - Jim Jones Review
Rico - This Man Is Forward
London Calling - The Clash
The Scream - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Signing Off - UB40

No real order...
The Housemartins- London 0 Hull 4
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say...
The Crookes- Hold Fast
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip- Angles
Oasis- What's The Story
Milburn- Well Well Well
The Vaccines- What Did You Expect
Plan b- The Defamation Of Strickland Banks
The Cribs- Men's Needs Women's Needs Whatever
The Libertines- Up The Bracket

Puressence - Only Forever
The Jam - Sound Effects
Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Radiohead - The Bends
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Bad Brains - Rock for Light
The Specials - The Specials
Conflict - The Ungovernable Force
Broken Bones - FOAD
The Clash - The Clash

In no particular order.
London calling- The Clash
All mod cons- The Jam
Men's needs women's needs- The Cribs
The Stone roses- The Stone roses
Slider- T Rex
Village green preservation society- The Kinks
Inflammable material- Stiff little fingers.
Who's next- The Who
No love lost- The Rifles
It's a shame about Ray- The Lemonheads.

Hmm.. top of head

Radiohead - OK Computer
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
Above & Beyond - Group Therapy
Gabriel & Dresden - Gabriel & Dresden
Apparat - The Devils Walk
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Furniture - The Wrong People
Sasha - Air Drawn Dagger
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Depeche Mode - Violator

Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
Crowded House - Crowded House
OMD - Architecture + Morality
Television - Marquee Moon
Talking Heads - Talking Heads 77
The Go-Go's - Beauty And The Beat
The Clash - The Clash
Northern Portrait - Criminal Art Lovers
R.E.M. - Murmur
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (a compilation but with a lot of singles that were not on albums)

No order

Three EP's - The Beta Band
Tri State - Above & Beyond
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
Sink Or Swim - The Gaslight Anthem
The Black Album - Jay Z
Anjunabeats 100 - Various Artists
The Shape Of Punk To Come - Refused
Channel Orange - Frank Ocean
Urban Hyms - The Verve

No order to them
Kid A - Radiohead
Mellow Gold - Beck
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
The Body, the Blood, the Machine - The Thermals
Ton-Ton Macoute - Johnny Jenkins
Gris-Gris - Dr John, the Night Tripper
Kill 'em All - Metallica
De Stijl - The White Stripes
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem

Superb album

Wasnt sure if u would be Group Therapy or Tristate..

Love both but that album is pure heaven!

I guess it is more diverse, with Hannah, Ashley, Zoe, Tony and myself as well as some pretty great instrumentals Air For Life etc, just feels a little old now. I think the boys did very well with the curse of the 2nd album, I know a few were shocked a little by the direction of GT but for me it was a healthy evolution.

No order.

Thrice - Vheissu
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Glassjaw - Worship/Tribute
Reuben - Racecar Is Racecar Backwards
Grammatics - Grammatics
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
The Used - S/T - Greatest pop punk record ever written.
That F*cking Tank - TFT

Think Oceanlab helped beat the 2nd album curse

no order

REM - Automatic for the people
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in space
Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks
Belle and Sebastian - If your feeling sinister
Belle and sebastian - The boy with the Arab Strap
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Nirvana - Bleach
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
Radiohead - OK Computer
Johnny Cash - The Legend of Johnny Cash (best of album)

To be honest, I see Oceanlab as a very distinct project from Above & Beyond.
It being centred around Justine, soundwise it doesnt feel like Above & Beyond to me
Oceanlab is for me much more like Motorcycle or Andain for Gabriel & Dresden or Velvetine for Myon & Shane 54.

The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love
The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico
Yes - Going For The One
Shearwater - Animal Joy
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Kevin Tihista's Red Terror - Don't Breathe A Word
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
REM - Murmur
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Bwyd Time
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression

God that took some time, I could have done it another time and I would have come up with 6 or 7 different albums.

That's what I meant! It was a good way to get away from making a "pressured" 2nd album in making the Oceanlab album

Do love Paavo hints at new stuff with Justine. Cant wait to hear it

Ah

yeh, I am interested to hear some of that too

Radiohead- the bends
Queen-sheer heart attack
Pink floyd-dark side of the moon
Human league- travelogue
Iron maiden- number of the beast
Muse-origin of symmetry
The blue nile-a walk across the rooftops
David bowie-hunky dory
Heaven 17- the luxury gap
Deep purple- in rock

All in no particular order

In no order:

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever you say I am...
Oasis - What's the story
Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
The Courteeners - St Jude
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
Editors - The Back Room
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
The King Blues - Save the World, Get the Girl
Everything Everything - Man Alive
The Enemy - We'll Live and Die in These Towns

In no particular order:

Love - Forever Changes
Beach House - Teen Dream / Bloom (can't decide which)
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Laura Nyro - Eli And The Thirteenth Confession
Judee Sill - Heart Food
Stereolab - Dots And Loops
Tortoise - TNT
Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Bjork - Vespertine

Random Order

Bottlesucker - Nigel Burch & Fleapit Orchestra
Matching Head And Feet - Kevin Coyne
The Image Has Cracked - Alternative Tv
Punishing Kiss - Ute Lemper
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Black Album - The Damned
Freak 0ut - Frank Zappa
Safe As Milk - Cpt Beefheart
Womans Got To Have It - Cornershop
Thoughts Of An Emerlist Davjack - The Nice